Refrigerator



(No Model) S. G ALLAIS.

REFRIGERATOR.

No. 308,960. Patented Dec. 9, 1884 J. 121.9. A gf Unirran drains Parana @rrrcn.

SOSTHENE GALLAIS, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

REFREGERATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 308,960, dated December 9, 1884.

Application filed August 4, 1884.

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Sosrrrnnn GALLAIS, of the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvements in Refrigerators, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying d rawings, forming a part of this specification.

My improvement relates more especially to the larger class of refrigerators, although not by any means confined to such; and it consists in making the same in sections in substantially the way stated.

Figure 1 is a front elevation. Fig. 2 is onehalf in plan and one-half in horizontal section at 2 2, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a vertical section at 3 3, Fig. 2. Fig. 4c is an enlarged vertical section of the ice-holder and drip-pan.

The bottom, top, and each of the sides are made in a separate piece, formed at the edges to fit the other pieces. Each piece has an outside and inside wall and an intermediate frame of wood or metal, with a chamber between the walls within the frame, which is filled with charcoal or other non-conductor of heat. The outside and inside walls are shown at a and b, respectively, and the noirconducting packing at c, and the frame at (7. The top section is lettered A, the bottom section B, and the side sections C. These sections have, as shown, similar beveled edges, D, made to fit each other, and when in position they are held together by. lag-screws E.

F is a gasket that may be laid in thejoint to make it airtight. The gasket may be made of rubber or of any other suitable substance, and may be coated with white or red lead before insertion. A strip of canvas may be coated with the lead, and the tightening of the edges upon it will make a tight joint.

(No model.)

\Vhere, however, the refrigerator is not in its permanent position, the gasket should be of rubber or other substance that will not take a firm hold of the surfaces D. The top section, A, is made with a central aperture, G, in which is inserted the ice-holder H, the said ice-holder having at top an outturned flange, H, that engages the edges of the aperture G. The ice-holder has a perforate sliding bottom,

I, upon which the ice rests, and through which into the refrigerator.

the water may drip into a pan, J, having a drain-pipe, J, with a trap therein, preventing the entrance of air through the drain-pipe The sides of the ice holder have orifices which are covered upon the inside with sheds K, which'prevent ice or other matters dropping through the orifices, and prevent the closing of the orifices by the contact of the ice with the sides of the holder. The purpose of these holes or orifices is to permit the free circulation of air between the interior of the ice-holder and the main Cilitl'lb ber of the refrigerator.

L is the lid of the ice-holder.

M is a frame or table, upon which the drippan is supported.

N is the door by which entrance is had to the interior of the refrigerator.

I claim 1. The combination, with a refrigerator, of table M, drip-pan J, seated on said table, iceholder H, supported above the pan, and perforated bottom I to the ice-holder, as set forth.

2. An ice-holder, H, having orifices in the sides, sheds K on the inside, covering the orifices, and perforated bottom, as set forth.

SOSTHENE GALLAIS.

Witnesses:

SAML. KNIGHT, Gno. H. KNIGHT. 

